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Are there any common household items or products that you think are designed incredibly poorly? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 days ago by bpt11@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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For example, I'm incredibly confused about how you're supposedly to measure liquid laundry detergent with the cap. At least the kind that I have sits on it's side, so if you measure it with the cap it just leaks everywhere and makes a mess.

Or at my parents house they have a bag of captain crunch berries that has a new design, where instead of zipping along the top of the bag like normal, it has a zipper in the front slightly beneath the top. That way when you poor it you can't see what you're doing cuz the bag is in the way. Like what the heck who's idea was that?

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[-] blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk 20 points 2 days ago

The new caps they're putting on plastic bottles are awful. Make it very hard to put back on properly and we've have a few incidents with them looking on but they actually cross threaded and leaked. I just rip them off now.

Also, why is the glue on cereal boxes so damn strong now? I end up tearing the box more often than not these days and that never used to be the case.

[-] superkret@feddit.org 8 points 2 days ago

I feel like plastic packaging in general has become much harder to rip open at the seam.
Anyone else notice this, or am I just much weaker now?

[-] spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 days ago

Some of them are outright ridiculous. Like one of the protein cookie brands I like, 80% of the time I have to hulk out and end up ripping the packaging to shreds. We also see it on chip packages and cereal bags at times too. It's crazy.

[-] notabot@lemm.ee 5 points 2 days ago

The glue on boxes is almost certainly that strong so that anyone trying to open the box to tamper with it will also rip it, making their attempt obvious. It drives me nuts too, but aparently that's the sort of world we live in now.

[-] Carighan@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

There were a lot of very public cases of people trying to or threatening to add poison to cereals, after all. Something like 30+ years ago of course, but it might have influenced this.

[-] Akasazh@feddit.nl 1 points 2 days ago

Twist them round half a turn (after loosening) one of the two plastic straps will break off and you have more maneuvering space to screw the cap back on. Twist and tear again to get the entire cap off and fasten the old fashioned way (more hassle).

My expierence is that most (european) bottles this helps.

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